http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=19613
"Noting that prison population has nearly doubled since the early 1990s and continues to grow, that the numbers of incarcerated women and juveniles have more than doubled in a decade and that the imprisonment of blacks is now seven times that of whites, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said that the prisons in England and Wales 'are becoming a public disgrace.' "